SQA career Launchpad 2026

Live Class 1: Kickstart Your QA Journey – Careers & Roadmap
Topics: What is SQA? QA vs QC vs Testing | SDLC vs STLC | Test levels: Unit, Integration, System, UAT | Test types: Functional, Non-functional | Roles: Manual Tester, QA Engineer, Automation Engineer | Test artifacts: Test Plan, Test Case, Bug Report | Career roadmap: Manual → API → Automation | Essential tools: Jira/Trello, TestRail/Sheets, Postman, Chrome DevTools, Git | Success stories & Q&A
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Live Class 2: Manual Testing Foundations
Topics: Requirements & acceptance criteria | Test design techniques: Equivalence Partitioning, Boundary Value Analysis | Writing positive/negative test cases | Test data & environments | Bug life cycle: severity vs priority | UI/UX testing checklist | API testing with Postman: GET/POST, status codes, JSON | SQL for testers: SELECT, WHERE, JOIN (read-only checks) | Mini assignment: Test cases for Login & Signup
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Live Class 3: Automation Kickstart – Selenium + PyTest
Topics: Environment setup (venv, pip) | Locators: id, name, CSS, XPath | Write your first Selenium test (open page, assert title) | PyTest basics: fixtures, asserts, run (pytest -v) | Page Object Model (overview) | Simple reporting (pytest-html) | Bonus: API test via requests | Final recap, Q&A & next steps

Project: E-commerce Checkout Flow QA — Test Plan + Test Cases + Bug Report (Manual)